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Traditional NER models, constrained by fixed taxonomies and human annotations, struggle to generalize beyond predefined entity types.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>To address these issues, we introduce GLiNER-BioMed, a domain-adapted suite of GLiNER models for biomedicine. Our approach first distills the annotation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) into a smaller, more efficient model, enabling the generation of high-coverage biomedical NER data. We subsequently train two GLiNER architectures, uni- and bi-encoder, at multiple scales to balance computational efficiency and performance. Experiments on eight biomedical datasets demonstrate that GLiNER-BioMed achieved state-of-the-art zero-shot performance (micro-F1 59.77%), exceeding the strongest baseline by 5.96 points (P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.001). In few-shot learning, the bi-encoder variant reached 70.39% (10-shot), consistently outperforming the strongest baseline across all settings (P\u2009&amp;lt;\u2009.05). Our findings show that the uni-encoder GLiNER-BioMed achieves the strongest zero-shot performance, while the bi-encoder offers superior few-shot gains and substantially higher inference throughput (+39%\u2013568%), making it well-suited to annotation-limited, latency-sensitive, or large-label-space settings. 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